Why Does the General Need to Be the Husband?

During the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Cao Cao basically unified the north, he sent Sheng Kuang to sneak into Jiangdong and conspired to contact the pro-Han forces in the country in an attempt to overthrow Sun Quan's regime by cooperating internally and externally. In order to consolidate the strategically important Danyang County, Sun Quan sent his third brother Sun Yi as the prefect. Unexpectedly, Sun Yi was assassinated during the banquet. Cao Jun's secret agents Gui Lan and Dai Yuan, who were lurking in the army, took the opportunity to launch a coup and took control of the military and political power. Although Sun Yi's wife, Xu, is only eighteen years old, she is calm and resourceful. Pretending to comply with Gui Lan's request for forced marriage, she secretly contacted her former subordinates Fu Ying and Sun Gao to devise a plan to kill her. She set up a mourning hall in the name of paying homage to her late husband, and used preparations for the wedding as a cover to lay out an ambush. On the wedding day, she greeted Gui Lan with a smile, which made Gui Lan relax his vigilance, and finally joined forces with the ambush to kill Gui Lan and put down the rebellion. The Xu family had already discovered Cao Jun's plot, sent people to investigate the military factory he secretly set up in Danyang County, and dispatched the Tiger and Leopard Army directly under Sun Quan to destroy it in one fell swoop. Afterwards, she discovered that Gui Lan had divided his troops to raid Xilong Mountain, which was Sun Quan's secret iron smelting center. She immediately reported to Sun Quan and personally led her troops to rush to the rescue. She took the lead on the battlefield and was often in danger. During the fierce battle, the Tiger and Leopard Army arrived in time, and then Sun Quan's navy also arrived on the battlefield, finally repelling Cao's army and preserving the lifeline of Jiangdong. After the incident was settled, Sun Quan deeply admired Xu's wisdom and courage, and lamented to Zhou Yu, Lu Su and others: "Why should a general be a husband!" Xu, as a woman, turned the tide in a crisis with wisdom and courage, and became a legend.